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Recently, MaRo wrote what was one of his finest articles ever, where he had all the cards in Alpha competing to be the last card to be in every core set produced. With 9th Edition, only 24 cards remained to be in every core set. But who will the likely winner be, if there is ever a winner. That is the purpose of this article. Using my mighty penguin wisdom, I can tell you what “permanent” core set cards are more likely to stick around than others.

: China has laws against skeletons, so WotC could decide to bring in another token regenerator for black. Besides, it’s not out of the realm of possibility that R&D decides that regeneration should be exclusive to green.

: A basic ability, the main threat to this card’s survival is R&D’s fear of land destruction. If true dual lands ever come back, as some R&D members have been considering, they might want to replace Stone with Molten as a balancer.